Anxiety gripped the state health circles on Sunday, as Maharashtra logged an all-time high of 23,350 infections, while 328 more people succumbed to the pandemic in various parts of the state.
There was a spike in the number of infections in the state for the fifth consecutive day. Through Sunday’s tally of 23,350, the state surpassed Saturday’s high of 20,489. With the fresh infections, the total number of positive cases crossed 9 lakh mark to touch 907,212.
With 328 deaths reported on Sunday, the Covid-19 toll mounted from 26,276 to 26,604.
Of the total 328 deaths, Pune topped the list with 52 deaths, while there were 42 deaths in Sangli, 37 in Mumbai, 29 in Thane, 22 in Nagpur, 15 in Solapur, 13 in Jalgaon, 12 in Satara and 11 in Osmanabad.
Similarly, there were 10 deaths in Raigad, 9 each in Palghar, Nashik and Nanded, 8 each in Ahmednagar and Kolhapur, 7 in Beed, 6 each in Latur and Amravati, 4 each in Aurangabad and Parbhani, 3 in Washim, 2 each in Jalna, Buldhana and Chandrapur and one death each in Dhule, Nandurbar, Wardha and Gondia. In addition, two persons from other states/countries died in Maharashtra.
There was a sharp spurt in deaths in Sangli, Nagpur, Solapur, and Jalgaon, while seven districts in the state reported zero deaths.
With 37 deaths, Mumbai’s Covid-19 toll w4ent up from 7,832 to 7,869, while the number of infections shot up by a staggering 1,910 – which incidentally is the highest till date –to touch 155,622.
Pune district with 1,99,303 infected cases continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra. The number of deaths in Pune increased from 4377 to 4429.
Thane district remained on the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – with 1,43,178 total cases, while the pandemic toll rose from 3935 to 3964.
In a related development, as many as 7826 patients were discharged from hospitals in the state after full recovery. As a result, the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year, touched 6,44,400. The recovery rate stood at 72.03 per cent. The mortality rate in the state is 2.93 per cent. The state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the state at 2,35,857
Out of 46,47,742 samples sent to laboratories, 9,07,212 have tested positive (19.52 per cent) for COVID-19 until Sunday. Currently, 14,96,072 people are in home quarantine while 38,509 people are in institutional quarantine.